Crossword-Solution: SATYRID
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Bates includes the Danaidæ and Heliconidæ as sub-families), contains an entire sub-family (Brassolidæ) and a number of genera, such as Thaumantis, Zeuxidia, Pavonia, &c., of crepuscular habits, while a large proportion of the Satyridæ and many of the Danaidæ are shade-loving butterflies.
Many other genera of this family, as Diadema, Adolias, Charaxes, and Cyrestis, as well as the entire families of the Danaidæ, Satyridæ, Lycænidæ, and Hesperidæ, present no examples of this peculiar form of the upper wing in the Celebesian species.
The Satyridæ have also probably a means of protection--perhaps their keeping always near the ground and their generally obscure colours; while the Lycænidæ and Hesperidæ may find security in their small size and rapid motions.
CHAPTER XIV _THE BROWNS AND HEATHS_ Family--SATYRIDÆ This family contains eleven British species, often spoken of collectively as the 'Browns,' since in most of them the prevailing tints are various shades of brown.
The Eocene formations seem to have produced no insect remains; but they occur again in the Upper Cretaceous at Aix-la-Chapelle, where two butterflies have been found, _Cyllo sepulta_ and _Satyrites Reynesii_, both belonging to the Satyridæ, and the former to a genus now spread over Africa, India, and Australia.